How did your life outside of school contribute to your academic success? What role, if any, did your family play? How did your life outside of school influence how you performed in school and what you chose to study?
Neither of my parents has interests in language teaching and the only English sentence that my dad knows is “Hello”. The experience of learning how to ride a bicycle enables me to value attempts. I consider Language teaching as a challenging job and I want to have a try.
When I was six-year old, my teacher encouraged me to take part in a bicycle riding competition because I was one of few students in my class who had bicycles. I accepted it though I couldn’t ride. When I came back home, I told my mum that I regretted accepting it because it was impossible to acquire the skill within a night, not mention to win a prize. Mum kept saying “have a try”. She showed me how to keep balance and how to move forward. The next day, I showed up on the playground with my bicycle. I fell down when I turned back and lost the completion. I complained to mum I should have not took part in and asked her what the point was. She said the point was that I had tried and it was the first step to success.
Though I didn’t manage to ride a bicycle within a night the experience still brought me a lot. I didn’t fear to learn to ride a bicycle anymore because I had survived the worst situation, falling down before all my classmates. All of them remembered me because of this “accidence”. I really appreciated the value of trying and this is the reason why I come here. To participate in class discussion and take exams in English are tough tasks for me but I still want to have a try. Only in an English environment can I acquire authentic language and think about my mother tongue from a new perspective. I am sure to study abroad is a try to me and it will bring me something though I am not sure what it will bring.
Non-School Academic Influences
How did your life outside of school contribute to your academic success? What role, if any, did your family play? How did your life outside of school influence how you performed in school and what you chose to study?
Neither of my parents has interests in language teaching and the only English sentence that my dad knows is “Hello”. The experience of learning how to ride a bicycle enables me to value attempts. I consider Language teaching as a challenging job and I want to have a try.
When I was six-year old, my teacher encouraged me to take part in a bicycle riding competition because I was one of few students in my class who had bicycles. I accepted it though I couldn’t ride. When I came back home, I told my mum that I regretted accepting it because it was impossible to acquire the skill within a night, not mention to win a prize. Mum kept saying “have a try”. She showed me how to keep balance and how to move forward. The next day, I showed up on the playground with my bicycle. I fell down when I turned back and lost the completion. I complained to mum I should have not took part in and asked her what the point was. She said the point was that I had tried and it was the first step to success.
Though I didn’t manage to ride a bicycle within a night the experience still brought me a lot. I didn’t fear to learn to ride a bicycle anymore because I had survived the worst situation, falling down before all my classmates. All of them remembered me because of this “accidence”. I really appreciated the value of trying and this is the reason why I come here. To participate in class discussion and take exams in English are tough tasks for me but I still want to have a try. Only in an English environment can I acquire authentic language and think about my mother tongue from a new perspective. I am sure to study abroad is a try to me and it will bring me something though I am not sure what it will bring.
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